Champery: Châtel - Portes du Soleil
Champéry has served as a mountain farming community in the Val d’Illiez since the Middle Ages. The village stands on the Swiss side of the Portes du Soleil, a cross-border mountain area shared with France and shaped by grazing land, forests and an extensive network of ski lifts. The Dents du Midi massif gives this part of Valais its defining alpine horizon, while the valley below leads north toward Monthey and the Rhône plain. Champéry is linked to Monthey by a railway line that reached the village in 1908. Traditional chalets and a long association with mountain sports retain the character of a working Alpine settlement as well as a resort.
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Few towns in Valais have a history as closely tied to alpine tourism as Champéry. Set in the Val d’Illiez, the village faces the jagged Dents du Midi massif and lies beside the Vièze, a mountain stream descending through the valley. Its railway terminus links it with the Rhône valley, while lifts from the village connect skiers and walkers to the Swiss side of Portes du Soleil, the cross-border mountain area shared with France. Traditional chalets and the parish church give the compact centre a distinctly alpine character rather than the scale of a purpose-built resort. Discover additional webcams from the surrounding Val d’Illiez to extend your view of the Dents du Midi.
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Valais combines high-alpine terrain with vineyard-lined valley life in a way that reflects its position between the Rhône Valley and the Pennine Alps. These coordinates lie in the Val d’Anniviers, a side valley where the Navizence flows north towards the Rhône and long-settled communities occupy slopes beneath high peaks. Across the canton, mountain pastures, glaciers and celebrated summits shape daily life as much as the broad, productive valley floor. Valais is also Switzerland’s leading wine-producing canton, and its historic bisses—open irrigation channels—show how generations adapted dry sunny slopes for cultivation. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of Valais.
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